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Elder Berry
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Date: November 04, 2014 02:47PM
Compare this...
"President Boyd K. Packer said: “A testimony is to be found in the bearing of it. Somewhere in your quest for spiritual knowledge, there is that ‘leap of faith,’ as the philosophers call it. It is the moment when you have gone to the edge of the light and step into the darkness to discover that the way is lighted ahead for just a footstep or two.” 18 "
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/10/pure-testimony?lang=engTo this...
"Their case, as has been amply proved by these recapitulations to-night, is a very lame case indeed. The few new facts which the Debate has elicited from that side of the House have been used by them, as was said in another connection, as a drunken man uses lampposts—more for support than for illumination."
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/15/stats-drunk/I can imagine "gaining a testimony" in the LDS Church is like being drunk on the wine of "The Restoration" and slowly walking to the edge of the light of your family and friends Liahona Lamppost, stumbling in the dark and finding another Liahona Lamppost out there in Mormonism and clinging to it for support more than what it illuminates for you in this world of ours.
Daniel Peterson seems to have found a Liahona Lamppost in science. He sounds more drunk than enlightened by this lamppost.
"It is not that I am anti-science. Years after giving up my youthful plans to be either a pure mathematician or a theoretical physicist, I still read somewhat in these and related fields. Besides, as will be shown, I do not limit my skepticism to the biological and physical sciences. Nor am I even remotely a relativist or a nihilist. But I think it critically important to maintain a certain humility before the complexities of the cosmos and the obscurities of history. Doubt can be an eloquent invitation to think, as René Descartes might have noted. And it is not at all clear that a science built upon crudely materialistic presuppositions will ever be able to deliver the exhaustive explanation of the entire cosmos that, as voices from some quarters constantly assure us, is just around the corner--despite the fact that reductionist scientism appears to derive a great deal of its authority among laypeople from precisely this unsubstantiated promise."
http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1442&index=1Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2014 02:48PM by Elder Berry.